15 Minute Post: History

Kynthia and I were talking about chicken wings and meat eating on chat today, and she remembered a conversation from before veganism was even a glint in my eye:

Kynthia: yeah. we were at yogi’s and you asked me about why i would be a vegetarian.  and i asked you why you wouldn’t.  and you shrugged and said it just didn’t seem like something that you really thought it was worth thinking about too much.

me: funny how times change

Kynthia: yep

It made me think: when exactly did I start getting into veganism?  Or feminism for that matter?  Or any kind of politics?  Who was I back then?

I went back through the archives of this blog, and discovered that I referenced feminism here for the first time on Friday, April 2nd, 2004 in a post about Love With A Proper Stranger.

It was a pretty simple comment… that it seemed pretty progressive to me for a woman to have a child out of wedlock while keeping her career in 1963.  But these are pretty mainstream feminism concerns, and if anything I regarded them more as a historical curiosity than something to celebrate.

Over the last three and a half years, I’ve learned a lot through the cycle of educating myself, and subsequently being able to connect to people who know more than I do, learning from them, learning how better to educate myself, and so-on.  I’ve learned a lot about justice, gender, race, ecology, and politics.  All of those words mean drastically different things to me than they did in 2004.

Funny how times change.